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Janine Wedel: Meet the new influence elites. How top players sway policy and governing in the twenty-first century
Janine R. Wedel is a university professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Senior Research Fellow of the New America Foundation. ABSTRACTA new breed of influence elite ha
Anna Tyllström: The social life of elite students: early socialization tactics in top business education
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Anna Tyllström, Associate Professor at Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University and IFFS affiliated
Stability of College Rankings. A Study of Relative Earnings Estimates Applying Different Methods and Models on Swedish Data
This study investigates how stabile the ranking system of Swedish universities is in relation to future incomes of their alumni. Amongst the findings, the ranking of colleges varies both across method
Janine Wedel to the Institute for Futures studies
In 2018 the Institute for Futures Studies will host the Kerstin Hesselgrens gästprofessur, held by Janine R Wedel, an American anthtropologist and professor at George Mason University i USA. Janine Wed at the institute in 2016. Follow that link and listen to Janine's TEDx-talk about the shadow elite affecting American politics.
Is there a rating bias of job candidates based on gender and parenthood? A laboratory experiment on hiring for an accounting job
Acta Sociologica Abstract Biased practices by employers have been suggested as one possible cause for the observed gender disparities in labor market outcomes. While US-based laboratory experiments show
Completed: Where corporate networks are born. A longitudinal study of gender differences in social networks in elite business education, and their long-term career affects
This project will examine how companies' elite social networks are formed and developed over time by studying how men and women network at a business school in Finland.
Anna Tyllström
I hold a PhD in business administration, especially organizational theory. I am a senior lecturer at Uppsala University and previously been working at Score, Stockholm School of Economics, University
Social norms and collective threats
Do social norms help dealing with collective threats? This project studies the behavior of people in the face of risk, and asks how social norms can motivate people to cooperate.
The Interplay between Employment and Family Trajectories Across the Life Course
Anette Eva Fasang, Humboldt-University Berlin & WZB Berlin Social Science Center The Interplay between Employment and Family Trajectories Across the Life Course: Germany and the United States in Co
Säde Hormio: Individual emissions, equality and the state
Seminar with Säde Hormio, researcher in Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. ABSTRACT The amount of greenhouse gases that can still be emitted to the atmosphere is very limited if global
